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Ingwe4
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 11:49 am EST : |   |
Huldine and Purpura Plena Elegans and a little bit of Emilia Plater in July!
and here they are in December....... Ugly! Ghostlike!!!
I have about 80 clematis and half of them look like the picture above! How do you handle your clematis? Pruning them in the Fall to avoid this misery?
Ingmarie Sweden Zone 1
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Gardenbug
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 12:50 pm EST : | |
I could show you eighty more brown ones Ingmarie! I guess that's why I study those spring catalogues so thoroughly. Sometimes I photograph the pretty seedheads with snow on them. I was just looking at the big seedheads on Blue Bird today. Anyone want seeds? It is going to be a very long wait until they turn green. :-( In the meantime, books!
Gardenbug Ontario zone 4b/5b |
Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 02:36 pm EST : | |
Well, if we didn't have the ugly winter, then the spring wouldn't be so sweet!
I know that, because I grew up in San Jose, CA where things turn green in the winter. So living in Idaho has been a real trial for me looking at the brown. YUCK!
Plus I can't grow Jasmine, Camellia, and Gardenas.
But I sure can plant tulips! :-)
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Gardenbug
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 04:09 pm EST : | |
Ingmarie, I always marvel at the size of your PPE compared to your Huldine. My PPE are very small, the Huldine large.
Gardenbug Ontario zone 4b/5b |
Ton_hannink
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 02:07 am EST : | |
I have no problems with dead leaves in Winter. I do not do anything in the garden so that birds can find seeds and so on. In our country we must be carefully with the nature because they build so much and we keep only a little bit nature.
Ton_hannink The Netherlands |
Gardenbug
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 04:12 am EST : | |
Ton, that is an excellent attitude. The building is everywhere! They call it progress. (I don't!)
Gardenbug Ontario zone 4b/5b |
Spider
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 06:25 am EST : | |
But I L I K E the brown. Go out again and have a look at the shapes of the leaves and the stems. Peek underneath where all the ladybirds are overwintering. Look at all the little green tips waiting for the trigger of spring.
Then step back and admire the shape of the garden you have created. It's only now that you can see where you were right and where you went wrong. And, remember, you only have a couple of months to correct all the problems before it all starts again...
Spider
- North Lincolnshire,
Zone "UK"
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Ton_hannink
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 07:48 am EST : | |
You are sure. During Winter if you have frost and the leaves and everything is white, it is beautiful. I like the garden in Winter just as in Spring!
Ton_hannink The Netherlands |
Ingwe4
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 10:30 am EST : | |
We had some severe frost in the middle of September which stopped the growing of my clematis and turned them into this brownish misery. Since then we have had no frost in October or November. But we're not lacking nature her in Sweden and I have had roses in December before, so I shouldn't complain..... And Spider, I'm afraid it's not only the pretty ladybirds, that is overwintering but also the slugs and snails and the beautiful but dangerous Rhadinocera ventralis or it's pupas....
Ingmarie Sweden Zone 1
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Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 12:13 pm EST : | |
Ingmarie, 
YUCK! Slugs and snails and other icky stuff.
Ian, you do have a point there about stepping back and looking at the shape of the garden. That is what I'm processing now while the temps are still in the 50's or high 40's. Farenhiet (sp?  ) of course. We've already had some freeze so that the plants and WEEDS are dying, so that helps me to see where the real plants are and not the weeds.
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Spider
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 08:18 am EST : | |
Karalyn - can't see my plants for the weeds! Eeek!
We just had our first frost last night so I'm sure it's a sign of things to come.
Ingmarie - do I detect just a hint of Swedish winter gloom there? Aren't you enjoying lots of lovely Glög right now? I used to enjoy that a lot when I was in Finland!!! OK, I used to enjoy it TOO much when I was in Finland!!!
Spider
- North Lincolnshire,
Zone "UK"
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Ingwe4
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 11:47 am EST : | |
Ian! Your memories of Finland are fantastic! Yes 'Glögg' is definitely a Winter Pleasure! But never on a Monday if you have to raise early on a Tuesday! Gloomy, yes, Mr Jack Frost came and took my flowers too early this year. The Winter will be so long. But, but, soon comes Father Christmas to all nice children and to all not so nice grown ups and maybe he'll have some new garden books for me in his sack! 
And there are other Winter Pleasures:
Karalyn! I'm doing my best to eliminate those naughty little friends. I'm digging some of my borders this Fall.
Ingmarie Sweden Zone 1
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Suzymac
My Favorite Photo
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 05:45 pm EST : | |
We have a foot of snow here and my clematis are just a memory. Ingmarie, you have beautiful pictures. I won't prune my clematis vines until late, late winter. I know they're ugly, but I want to have the very best spring growth, so I must wait. Here is my orchid taken last winter, but now it is close to blooming again for me:
Suzy
Suzymac
- Massachusetts,
Zone "6-7"
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Gardenbug
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 08:07 pm EST : | |
I've enjoyed the clematis photos on this forum for the last day or two. The photography is very good I think. It is way too early to think of pruning...or even ordering new ones!
So tonight I enjoyed these beginning to bloom.
My new orchid is posted under indoor plants...but the weight of its blooms bent the stem! I have re-staked it.
Then I took a book of Simenon mysteries and read by the fire while waiting for DH to return from hockey. Aaaah....
Gardenbug Ontario zone 4b/5b |
Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 08:56 am EST : | |
Bug, what a nice fireplace! My husband saw your photos and thought your house was a farm house. This picture makes it even look more like a farm house, considering your big pines hid most of the house! 
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Ingwe4
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 09:01 am EST : | |
Oh Marie! Your fire place looks so nice! I'm so envious. When I see your picture, I regret we have decided to spend Christmas in our summer house. In our winter living there is a fire place......
Susy! Your orchid is very pretty indeed!
Ingmarie Sweden Zone 1
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